Monica Garcia-Albea

Monica Garcia-Albea started out as a flute player, but received her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance/Opera at Boston’s New England Conservatory. She then moved to Berlin, Germany, where she sang in established opera houses, most notably with the two-time “Best Choir of the Year” in the Deutsche Oper Berlin. However, she was from the beginning, always drawn to jazz, improvisation, and movement courses, and as a free-lance artist in Berlin, Monica left her mark in the cross-over “off-opera” scene. Her career break came with the leading role of Pamina in “The Magic Flute in the Subway”, an internationally acclaimed production that integrated a rock singer, contemporary dance, and video projections. As a voice teacher in Berlin, Ms. Garcia-Albea built a reputation for implementing pop music, Alexander Technique, yoga, ball-games, and dancing in her lesson plans, and for switching musical eras at the drop of a hat. In 2013, when she began her own singing-piano-flute teaching business in New Jersey, Monica tried to import this out-of-the-box thinking, and had a great following of students, parents, and friends. Popsical School of Performance and its holistic view of music education is for her a natural extension of all her years of training and experience. In addition to Popsical, Monica formed “Medina Peace Band” and has released two original singles on Spotify. She also started the “Latin Switch” project which explores lead-follow dynamics in Latin dancing.